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“arly Signing Of Japanese
Peace Treaty Is Indicated
BY EDWARD E. BOMAR
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.
__(AP)—The United States
made the ‘“‘definite predic
tion” tonight that, regard
loss of Soviet delaying ef
forts, the new Japanese
peace treaty will be signed
“in a matter of days.”
Most of the delegates from
51 nations gathering at San
['rancisco ‘“‘are in no mood
to brook obstructionism,”
the State Department sait
in a report on treaty nego
tintions. It sharply criticized
[lresian oppogition tactics.
At the same time diplomatic
yuthorities' disclosed that the
< uth Korean Republic is sending
ce representatives to the treaty
<ioning conference in a move con¢
red certain to result in g
yute with Russian, Polish "‘?'Q
cchoslovakian delegationsgd &
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i -J Day, Korea was not j& <" -d
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Officials look for c«;" ian Am
hassador You Chant. %, and two
acsociates ¢y press for .ne right to
he seated and to speak, even
hough they cannot sign the treaty.
The Koreans look for support from
the U. S.
The State Department’s criticism
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 —
(AP) — Senator Chavez (D.-N.
71.) urged the United States to
day to start talking to Russia in
“the language of force” at the
Japanese Peace Treaty confer
ences at San Francisco.
“ft s time we told Mr. Stalin
and his stooge, Gromyke that
we have adopted the rattlesnake
slogan of South Carolina’s flag:
‘Don’t tread on me’.” Chavez
declared in a prepared radio
address.
“The San Francisco Confer
ence would be a good time to
start,” the Senator said, and
added:
“Force is the only argument
the Communists understand.”
He described Andrei Gromy
ko, heading the Russian delega
tion to the conferences, as “the
ice-faced hatchet man eof the
Kremlin.”
of Russia was in a background
roundup of developments leading
up to the conference.
“There may be a few among the
delegates present who have been
sent to block the treaty but who,
in the end, will be able only to de
nounce the result,” the department
said
“However, one definite predie
tion can be made. Shortly after
the opening ceremonies, on the
evening of Sept. 4—in a matier of
s—the treaty will have been
ed by so many Allied powers,
Iding the “principal contribu
to victory, that there will be
foubt in any quarter as to the
t of peace or the terms of
ce”
Noting that Russia already has
ed the intention of submitting
“remarks” on the treaty draft
nsored by the U. S. and Bri
n, the department said:
U. S. Hopes
“The U. 8., for one, sincerely
hopes that these new Soviet re
narks will be more relevant and
tendered in a more constructive
vein than any issuing from that
source thus far. For one thing,
most of the conferees are in no
mood to brook obstructionism.”
In a defense of American plans
to keep forces in Japan through a
separate treaty, the State Depart
ment declared that ‘“there can be
no doubt that Japan is a prime
target” of Soviet expansion, add
ing;
“If the Kremlin could exploit
the industrial and human poten
tial of Japan, it would be a sad
day for peace. A treaty of peacc
which would leave Japan a vacu
um of power would be inviting
augression, Nearby Korea is a
case in point.”
As for reparations which the
treaty bars, the State Department
sald that to validate all the just
claims against Japan for war
losses would sink the Japanese
cconomy under liabilities of more
than $100,000,000,000 and make
the Japanese easy prey for totali
tarian demagogues.
Ten Labor Day
['2aths Foreseen
ATLANTA, Spet. 1 (AP) —
Precentage can’t prove a thing to
ne 10 or more persons who pro
bably will lost their lives in traf
tic accidents in Georgia over the
Labor Day week end.
But figures do indicate that ten
persons will die in Georgia traffic
Mishaps from today through Mon
day. Last year the labor day toll
in the state was 18. :
Although the August traffie
death rate in the state has been
high, the accident reporting divi-
Sion of the Georgia State Patrol
'eports that the highway toll this
vear is substantially under 1950
fingh“' been 62 hlgh ay
ere have w
deaths reported in the State urirag
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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
North Georgians Roast
As Temperature Mounts
ATLANTA, Sept. I.—(AP)—North Georgia was like
an oven today with the mercury climbing to 99 in Rome
and 96 in Atlanta. Showers along the coast held tempera
tures to the 80s in the Savannah-Brunswick region.
Furthermore, said the weather
man, the next couple of days hold
little promise of change. No gen
eral rain is in sight, he said, and
that's what is needed to break the
heat wave.
Isolated thundershowers over
small areas could bring tempor
ary relief in some localities.
» ; Cold Air
A mass of cold air is moving
eastward across the central plains
area, the weather bureau reported,
but will have little if any effect
this far south.
It’s hard to draw an accurate
picture of drought conditions.
Local showers have provided
pletity of moisture in some areas;
other places haven't had a drop
of rain in two months.
In the Chattahoochee Valley
area around Columbus, where the
temperature today rose to 95, rains
have been good, though not as fre
quent as farmers would like. Crops
still are in good shape and there
has been mno threat to the water
supply.
Across the State at Augusta,
the prolonged lack of rain is burn
ing up pastures and corn is giving
only, a medium yield. But, said
county agent J. W. Chambers, the
dry spell has produced a top
notch cotton crop—the biggest
trouble being a shortage of ecotton
pickers. g
Georgians have been asked to
unite in prayer for rain today.
For Athens and Clarke county
August was the driest month in
the history of the local weather re
cord, which dates back to 1849.
The only day in the month with a
resonable amount of rainfall was
August 3, when .09 inches of pre
cipitation was recorded.
The largest August rainfall ever
recorded in this area was 18.43
inches in the year 1908, local
weather officials revealed yester
day. That offers quite a contrast
to August, 1951.
Total Rain Fall
Total rainfall for this area this
year, thus far, is 29,45 inches, al
most six inches below average.
Temperatures during August
averaged 90.8 degrees, making it
the hottest August since the year
1938, when the average was 81.
During twenty-six days of the
month just past the thermometer
registered above 90 in the after
noons with a high of 97 degrees
recorded on August 18, 21 and 31.
The sixty-two-degree tempera
ture registered on the 24th was
the lowest of the month.
Athens, Clarke School
Opening Dates Are Set
L -—
Students of the University De
monstraton School will begin
classes for the 1951-52 school term
on Tuesday Sept. 4, while city
school students will return to
class after their summer vaca=
tions on September 10. The St.
Joseph’s Parish School located on
Prince Avenue will begin on Sept.
4, also.
Registration began at the De
monstration School on Friday,
August 31 and was completed by
noon of that same day. Teachers
of the Demonstration School at
tended a pre-planning week in
preparation for the opening of
the school from Tuesday, August
28, through the time for classes to
begin.
All other county schools will
open tomorrow, September 3, it
was announced this week by W.
R. Coile, Clarke County Schools
Superintendent.
Registration began at the St.
Joseph’s school on Friday during
the hours of 9-11 a. m. and will
continue on Monday thgough the
same hours. Public school registra
tion is slated for September 5-6.
Pupils of elementary schools and
Junior High School will register
on Wednesday, Sept. 5, during
the hours between of B %
m. and 3:30 p. m. Athens High
students will register according to
the followng schedule:
Wednesday, Sept. 5—8:30 to 12
a. m. ninth grade; 1 p. m. to 4:30
p. m. twelfth grade.
Thursday, Sept. 6—8:30 to 12 a.
m. eleventh grade; 1 p. m. to 4:30
p. m. twelfth grade.
Where To Register
All students ‘are to register at
the schools which they are to at
tend. Kindergarten classes for
Barrow and Chase Streets will be
held at a Kindexgarten center on
the Lucy Cobb Campus but stu
dents are to register at the schools.
Information about the hours of
classes and other facts ahout the
gchools ‘can be obtained at the in
dividual schools at the time of
registration.
Every pupil entering the Athens
Study Requested
Before Further
Increase In Tax
WASHINGTON, Sept. I—(AP).
Rep. Reed (R-NY.), top Repub
lican among House tax-writers,
called today for Congress to re
ject further tax increases pending
a study “to determine just how
much we can stand.”
Reed said he would introduce a
resolution urging a joint survey
by the Senate Finance and the
House Ways and Means Commit
tee. He is a member cf the latter
group,
It would ask the President “to
withhold any new tax demands
that he may have in mind until
the (joint) committee completes
its investigation.”
Big Tax Bite
“It is currently estimated that
30 per cent of the taxpayer’s dol
lar is going into federal, state and
local taxes,” Reed said in a state
ment. “That is about as high as
we can go without doing irrepar
able damage to the nation’s econ-
omy.”
“We have already enacted sev
eral unsound tax measures at the
behest of President Truman that
discourage incentive and hamper
production. Such a haphazard and
careless method of taxation is
against the public interest and
could easily prove disastrous.”
Saying “we can ill afford to im
pose additional taxes on the al
ready overburdened taxpayer,”
Reed continued:
“Jt is certainly high time the
Congress and the people know
how far we can go in taxes with
out killing the goose that lays the
golden egg. Excessive taxation can
do just that.
Tax Policies
“Our tax policies should be de
signed to encourage incentive and
increase production. If we adopted
such policies and discarded the
unsound ‘soak the rich’ philosophy
of the present administration the
nation’s tax load would be con
siderably lighter.”
So far, President Truman has
asked for $10,000,000,000 in new
taxes, saying they are needed to
finance the defense program and
to help curb inflation. He stands
likely to get an increase of much
less than that.
. Schools for the first time is re
quired to present a birth certifi
cate. In order to enter Kinder
garten a child must be five years
old on or before December 31 and
to enter first grade a child must
be six years old on or before Dec
ember 31.
Lunchrooms will be open at
both the Demonstration School
and all of the Public Schools on
the first day of classes. Lunch
prices at the Athens elementary
schools will be 20 cents and at
Junior and Senior High Schools
the price will be 25 cents.
Supply Fees
Supply fees for public schools,
Kindergarten through High School
will be $3:50, with additional fees
| at High School for Athletics
($3.00), Newspaper ($1.00), and
| military ($4.00). Pupils who take
band lessons will pay a fee of
| $5.00 if they use their own in
| struments and an additional fee
| of SIO.OO if they use school-owned
| instruments. There will be no fee
| charged for students taking in
| dustrial arts but the students will
| be required to pay for materials
| used.
; Tuition for students who live
| outside of the city and desire to
' attend Athens schools $5.00 per
month for elementary schools and
| SB.OO per month for grades seven
| through twelve, .
Considerable additions have been
| made at both the St. Joseph’s and
| the Demonstration Schools for the
coming year. The eighth grade has
been added to the St. Joseph’s
| school. Tuition for that school is
1 SIO.OO per family regardless of the
| number of children attending. The
| Demonstration School has broad
| ened its program to include a
| twelfth grade for the first time
| this year. Commerical science, art,
| mathematics, social science, home
| making, and language departments
| have ‘all .been broadened, to fill
/| the students, needs.
Daily schedules for city schools
| will be announced later this week.
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
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ROCKETS TO NEW HEIGHTS — Here is the Navy's
rocket-powered, needle-nosed, Douglas Skyrocket re
search ship that shattered all altitude records by climb
ing to what aviation experts believe to be more than
1414 miles. The flight was made with Douglas test pilot
Bill Bridgeman at the controls. Height reached was un
officially 77,674 feet where plane levelled off at 1,300
miles per hour, according to the experts.— (AP Wire
photo.)
US, New Lealand And
Australia Sign Pact
American Security Guarantees
Extented To Southwest Pacific
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. I.—(AP)—The United States
today signed a mutual defense treaty with Australia and
New Zealand, extending American security guarantees
into the Southwest Pacific,
Percy C. Spender, Australian ambassador to the United
States, was the first to put his name on the historic docu
ment in & brief ceremony at the Presidio. @~
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J. A. Simpson, J.
Is Top Y Camper
For the third time in twenty
three years, an Athens youth has
been awarded the large silver cup
after being voted the Best All-
Round Camper at the Athens “Y”
Camps for Boys.
Winner this year of the camp
cup is John A. Simpson, jr., son
of Dr. and Mrs. John A. Simpson,
r., who is known to is many
friends as “Squeaky,” a nickname
he earned because the competitive
spirit flared fiercely in him when
he was in the group of very, very
small youngsters.
Previous Winners
Previous winners from Athens
during the twenty-eight years the
cup has been offered were DuPree
Hunnicutt, jr., who won it the
first year, and Elliott Morris, who
was the 1945 winner.
The annual winner for the two
months camping period is elected
by vote of the camp leaders and
assistant leaders, who keep a care~
ful watch on all of the boys
throughout the camp, and the
honor becomes ever more valued
when it is stated that “Squeaky”
won out over 341 other boys in
the camp.
He is an excellent swimmer, one
of optential championship quali
ties. In fact he won out in the
recent Crackerland and City
Championship. He is also an ex
cellent basketball and football
player, more than making up for
his lack of size by his courage and
will be in the Ninth Grade in
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WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and rather hot,
becoming cooler Sunday affer
noon with widely scattered
thundershowers. Monday, fair
and cooler. Sun rose this morn
ing 6:07 and sets 6:58,
GEORGIA—MostIy fair Sun
day except some cloudiness and
widely scatfered showers over
south portion; continued hot.
Sir Carl Berendsen, the New
Zealand Ambassador, signed n;fig
U. 8. Secretary of
was third. Also signing for the
United States were Ambassador
John Fostor Dulles, who negotia=
ted the defense pact; Senator Al
exander Wiley (R-WIS); and Sen=
ator John J. Cparkman (D-ALA).
Before signing, Spender, Ber
endesen and Acheson made short
statements describing it as a Bul
wark of peace in the Pacific and
a purely defensive alliance which
can be brought inte play only by
an act of aggression against one of
the three countries.
Short Ceremony
The short ceremony, in a atmos=
phere of military pomp at San
‘Francisco’s historic conference
next week,
It serves aims in the Pacific and
of reassuring Austrilia and New
Zealand against any resurrection
of Japanese militarism. It was the
second strong link in & chain of
Pacific security alliances within
the framework of the Urnited Na
tions charter,
First was the U. S.-Philippines
mutual defense agreement signed
in Washington Aug. 30.
Secretary of State Dean Acheon.
pointed this up sharply in declar=
ing:
“Together with the U, S.-Philip
pines mutual defense treaty and
the post-treaty arangements be
tween the United States and Japan
we hope to make it the basis for
peace in the Pacific.”
“Toward the day when that
peace will be assured, all our
hopes are turned,” he said.
Booming 19 gun salutes and mili
tary ruffles and flourishes provid
ed a stirring military backdrop
for the signing ceremony as it
unfolded at the Presidio, U, S.
Sixth Army headquarters.
A selected audience of some 250
diplomats, military and civic lead
ers witnessed the ceremony in the
ballroom of the spanish-styled
enlisted service club,
Actual Signers
Percy C. Spender, Austrialian
Ambassador to the United States,
signed for his nation, foliowed by
Sir Carl Berendsen, the New Zea
land ambassador.
“We have learned thirough bitter
experience that freedom and con
stant vigilance are inseparable
companions,” Spendef said. ¢ . .
Because we labor for peace we
must be prepared to meet aggress
ion no matter whence it may come
or wherever it may strike, There is
no other way.”
Berendsen called the treaty “A
commen undertaking to regard a
danger to one as a danger to all.”
The three-power pact establish
es a council of foreign ministers or
their deputies who will be orga
nized to meet at any time.
The heart of the treaty is a re
cognition that an armed attack in
the pacific area or on any one of
the signatories would be dangerous
to the “peace and safety” of the
others. The three countries are
bound to act to meet the common
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CHURCH SCHOOL ENDS
Havin% just closed a very suc
cessful Vacation Church School,
Oconee Street Methodist Church
tonight will present a closing pro
gram at the Church at 8 o’clock.
A cordia] invitation is extended
the publie to attend and see what
the children have accomplished.
Flares Dropped Over
Allies’ Munsan Camp
Battle Rages; Major
Red Attack May Ensue
U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Korea, Sun
day, Sept. 2.— (AP)—Savage fighting raged Saturday on
eastern Korea’s ‘‘bloody ridge’” amid indications the Reds
might soon launch a major attack.
An Allied front line officer reported the heavily rein
forced Communist forces could throw “a whale of a blow”
at the United Nations line. But he added they wouldn’t
make much of a dent.
Farm Meeting Is
Addressed By
Bureau Officias
Two agricultural meetings were
held at the county courthouse
Friday night and yesterday morn
ing, the first having been spon
sored by the Clarke County Farm
Bureau and the second by the
county agricultural Mobilization
committee.
Bill Skinner, editor of the Geor
gia Farm Bureau News, spoke to
the Friday night meeting over
which H. E. Woods, president of
the Clarke County Farm Bureau,
presided.
Yesterday’s meeting of the mo
bilization comnrittee was adjourn
ed until next Friday.
Mr. Skinner was introduced
Friday night by President Wood.
He discussed the need for mem
bership in the Farm Bureau and
stated that it is of greater import
ance to the southeast than ever
before. He declared the southeast
represents 44 percent of the na
tion’s farmers. And if the south
east will increase its membership
in the Farm Bureau it will
strengthen its position on the nat
ional Farm Bureau board.
Mr. Skinner also discussed the
cotton price situation with partic~
ular emphasis on the assertion
that if 50 percent of cotton is
placed in the loan it will have a
direct bearing on the price. His
talk included comment on the U.
S. Department of Agriculture’s
family farm policy review.
M. C. Gay and A. P. Winston
both discussed the importance of
the proposed grain elevator to this
section and stressed the need for
more funds as the capacity is to
be increased,
Athenians Enjoy
Long Week-End
Athenians today are enjoying
the “long week-end” occasioned
by the ob®ervance of Labor Day
tomorrow with almost all places
of business remaining closed.
All service windows at the Post
Office will remain closed and
there will be no deliveries with
the exception of Special Delivery
letters and packages,
All three local banks will be
closed, as will drugstores and oth
er stores.
Retail stores in Athens will re
main closed tomorrow for Labor
Day, it has been announced by C.
W. Fitzgerald, chairmen of the
Merchants group, who also an
nounced, in accordance with pre
viously adopted plans of the Mer
chants Council, that stores will
begin remaining :gen all day on
Wednesdays for the rest of the
year. The only other holidays to
be observed by the Merchants for
the remainder of 1951 are Thanks
giving Day, on November 22nd,
and Christmas Day, December
25th.
Banks To Cose
All three local banks will be
closed, as well as the retail mer
chants and drugstores.
Mayor Jack R. Wells announced
yesterday that the City Hall will
be closed Monday in observance
of Labor Day and that all em
ployes who are not needed for the
health and safety of the citizens
will be given a holiday.
It was alsc announced that all
offices in the County Courthouse
will remain closed Monday in ob~
servance of the day,
National Holiduy
Since Labor Day is a national
holiday, the various federal gov
ernment offices and agencies here
will also be closed.
Athenians will observe the holi
day in various ways. Some will
take trips to the mountains, to
visit friends and relatives, and
these are urged by the State Pa
trol to use extreme care on the
highways which will be crowded.
Others plan to put in their time
fishing or on other outdoor out=-
ings, though the prospect for the
fishermen is not too favorable due
to the exfreme hot weather and
lack of water in the streams and
lakes.
Still others will remain at home
and just “take things easy.”
Among the latter group will be
most of the members of Athens
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Read Daily by 35,000 People In Athens Trade Area
Allied foreknowledge of com=
munist offensives in the past has
developed from Red prisoners,
plus unusual supply activity.
Headquarters identified four new
Communist divisions on the east-
Central front.
Apparently none of the fresh out
fits was in action against the U. N,
forces. Nevertheless, Red resis
tance was fierce. The Communists
hurled many counter-assaults at
Allied troops making limited at
tacks.
Saturday’s fighting was reported
the heaviest since the Kaesong
truce talk began July 10. An Al
lied drive for the crest of “Bloody
Ridge,” north of Yanggu and some
35 miles inland from the east
coast, bogged down in the face of
die-hard resistance, i
AP photographer Robert Otey
reported the Reds battled to the
death from strongly fortified
bunkers. One Allied unit was
counter-attacked five times in that
area,
U.N. planes and artillery pound=
ed Red positions to the north to
prevent any bolstering of the Com
munist forces. In one sector of the
east-central front air spotters
counted 218 Communist dead from
air strikes. S
At the eastern end of the sec
tor Allied warships bombarded
Red positions near the coast.
In far northwest Korea, Allied
and Communist jet fighters tan
gled in a 20-minute dogfight. One
Red Jet was listed as probably
destroyed.
13 Feared Dead
In Air Crashes
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 1.
— (AP) — Thirteen more service
men were dead or missing teday
in the eighth and ninth of a series
of disastrous Alaska air crashes.
But for once, a survivor was
found at the scene of one of the
accidents, The Alaska Air Com
mand reported that a Navy airman
was found on Little Tanaga island
where nine men died yesterday in
the flaming wreckage of a Navy
Privateer bomber.
His name was not disclosed,
pending notification of next of
kin, and there was no indication
of his condition.
The Tanaga crash and the dis
appearance of an Air Force C-47
transport nlane carrying at least
four persons, raised the toll of
dead and missing to 84, all in
plane accidents.
The Navy Privateer bomber
crashed into a mountain at about
the 700 foot level on Little Tanaga
island far out in the Aleutian
chain. .
It was on a roufine flight from
Adak and in its last report two
hours after takeoff told of a 300-
foot ceiling, some clouds and fog;
but a visibility of two miles.
Lieut. Commander Charles W.
Rich, Bozeman, Mont., located the
burned wreckage from the air. A
search party, which went by boat
and then overland, recovered
eight bodies. The ninth body was
not found.
The craft was the same type as
the Navy plane which crashed two
weeks ago on Amak island north
of the Alaska peninsula with the
loss of 12 lives. ° ’ s A
The C-47 transport from the
5039th Base Flight Squadron at
Elmendorf Field at Anchorage,
just disappeared on a flight be
tween Natinum and Naknek, west
of Kodiak.
Legionnaires
Cancel Carnival
At the suggestion of Dr. W. W,
Brown, City-County Health Com
missioner, the Tinsley Shows car
nival which was to have opened
here Monday to run throughout
the week, has been cancelled by
Allen R. Fleming Post No. 20 of
the American Legion.
Athens has had only two cases
of polio this summer and the sug
gestion by Dr. Brown was purely
of a precautionary nature, intend
ed to eliminate danger of spread
ing polio because of the big crowds
which would have attended the
carnival.
Athens has had a wonderful
record so far in keeping down the
number of polio cases so far this
summer, Dr. Brown said, and
there is little reason to take any
unnecessary chances of encourag
ing the spread of polio.
In complying with the safety
suggestion of Dr. Brown, the Le
gion Post said it was glad to do
everything possible to cooperate
in keeping down the spread of the
disease. |
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EDITION
UN Officials
Reject All
Red Charges
MUNSAN, Korea, Sundag®™
Sept. 2.— (AP) —A dozen
flares from an unidentified
aircraft burst over the Al
lied truce camp here last
night, seven hours after U.
N. officers had rejected
Communist claims that am
Allied plane had bombed
the Kaesong neutral zone.
A Fifth Air Force spokesman
said “all possibilities” regarding
the flare-dropping were being in
vestigated. This presumably in=
cluded the possibility that the
flares might have been dropped
inadvertently by an Allied air
craft.
Unlike Kaesong, the Munsan
camp is not a neutral area. Kae~
song, 18 miles northwest of Mune
san, is the site of the now-sus
pended armistice talks.
A twin-engine plane was heard
circling over the camp area at the
time the flares were dropped.
Other flares lit up the sky a mile
away over the train on which
Allied newsmen have been living.
Red Charges
One of the myriad Communist
charges of Allied violations of the
Kaesong zone was that an Allied
plane dropped flares over the
truce conference city August 28.
The U. N. rejected this chanrge
Saturday, declaring that fiares
were dropped that morning, but
by a photographic plane working
20 to 25 miles north of Kaesong.
The Communist claim that am
Allied plane dropped two bombs
in the Kaesong zone early Satur~
day morning was rejected prompt
ly by U. N. liaison officers sum~
moned by the Reds to mvesfln
~ The U. N, officers told the
that a plane may have bombed
the area, but that it was not a U.
N. aircraft. They observed that
two holes in the earth could have
been made by bombs dropped
from the air or detonated om- the
ground. )
The obvious inference was that
the Reds staged the alleged bomb
ing for propaganda purposes, The
truce talks were called off by the
Reds August 23 after they char
ged an Allied plane bombed Kae
song—a charge General Matthew
B. Ridgway, Supreme U. N. Com~
mander, denied.
The investigation of the alleged
Saturday bembing was made by
Colonel A. J. Kinney and Colonel
J. C. Murray, who were accomr
panied by four Allied newsmen
and U. S. Air Force officers ants
technicians.
The newsmen said Kinney and
the top Red liaison ofticer, North
Korean Colonel Chang Chun Sam,
argued heatedly over the ‘“evi
dence.”
After examining a large hole
which Chang claimed was a bomb
crater, Kinney snapped:
Kinney View
“There are two ways to make a
hole such as this. One way is to
plant a bomb in the ground and
then detonate it., The other is to
drop it from an aircraft.”
“Don’t try to be funny,” said
Chang angrily. “Just investigate.”
“I'll make any remarks I choose
to make at any time I like,” Kin
ney barked back. -
Along with continued Allied de
nials of Red charges, General
Ridgway’'s headquarters in Tokyo
issued a statement declaring that
“if the Commmunists refuse to con
tinue the talk,s it will be taken as
the last conclusive evidence of
their bad faith.”
Ridgway has proposed to the
Reds that the negotiations resume.
The Reds have never replied o
the proposal.
Meanwhile, the pace of battle
quickened. Allled divisions em
gaged in the heaviest fighting
since the truce talks started July
10 spotted four new Red divisions
on the east-central front. An Al
lied officer told AP Correspond
ent George McArthur that the re~
inforced Communists could throw
“a whale of a blow” at U. N. po~
sitions. He expressed confidence,
however, that the U. N. line would
hold.
Mrs. Rutherford
Taken By Death
Mrs. Dora Rutherford, 78, prom
inent Athenian and mother of Mrs.
Herschel Stone, died in a local
hospital Friday night following an
illness of several weeks.
Funeral services are to be eon~
ducted from Gordon’s Chapel this
afternoon at 4 o'clock, Rev. B, W,
Hancock, pastor of Martha Brown
Memorial Church, and Rev. G. M.
Spivey, pastor of Young Harris
Methodist Church, officiating. In
terment will follow the services in
Gordon’s Chapel Cemetery,
Bridges Funeral Home in echarge
of all artangements. i
Jewell Seagraves, Otis Dillaxd,
Curtis Stephefa“.;. 'W. Burroughs,
Hoyt Nelms, Swindel, Lee
nard Hale and Tom Bowden will
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